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The future of my personal sharing habits

I’ve been rethinking the value of a centralised and hosted social network like Facebook and Google+ for personal sharing lately. Maybe the kids are on to something with messaging apps as their main way to share stuff with each other? I have this sense that networks like Facebook and Google+ (although Google+ is a little…… Continue reading The future of my personal sharing habits

Published 2013-10-14
Categorised as Social Web Tagged facebook, google+, path, social networks, social sharing

Tent: a protocol for an open and distributed social Web

I wrote about our increasingly urgent need for a distributed and open Web last week and I came across a Google+ post linking to Tent which is a protocol designed to help make that happen: Tent is a protocol for open, decentralized social networking. Tent users share content with apps and each other. Anyone can…… Continue reading Tent: a protocol for an open and distributed social Web

Published 2012-08-24
Categorised as Social Web, Web/Tech Tagged Current Affairs, distributed, peer to peer, social sharing, Social Web, tent

Google+ – you're just using it incorrectly

I have recently started using Google+ a lot more and the more I use it the more value it has for me. Rich Mulholland recently quipped that I am the only person using Google+ in South Africa and it turns out there are a lot more South Africans on Google+ although I don’t have a…… Continue reading Google+ – you're just using it incorrectly

Published 2012-06-14
Categorised as Social Web Tagged google+, social network, social sharing

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